Hinge for gable-doors.



E. A. SGHAAL. HINGE FOR GABLE DOORS. APPLICATION FILED MAY 4, 1910.

973,073, Patented Oct. 18,1910.

screws through holes 19 in said plate. The l ITE S ERNEST A. SGI-IAAL, 0F ANKENY, IOWA, ASSIGNOR OF ONE-HALF TO HOLLA W. MILLER,

01? ALLEMAN, IOWA.

HINGE FOR GABLE-IDOORS.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Oct. 18, 1910.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, ERNEST A. SCHAAL, a citizen of the United States of America, and resident of Ankeny, Polk county, Iowa, have invented a new and useful Hinge for Gable- Doors, of which the following is a specification.

The object-of this invention is to provide an improved construction for hinges for gable doors.

A further object of this invention is to provide means for hanging a gable door so that it will swing clear of the gable when opened.

My invention consists in the construction, arrangement and combination of elements hereinafter set forth, pointed out in my claim and illustrated by the accompanying drawing, in which Figure 1 is an end elevation of a barn showing my improved hinges attached to the gable doors thereof, dotted lines showing the doors in open position. Fig. 2 is a front view of my improved hinge. Fig. 3 is a top View of the same, dotted lines showing the position occupied by the door member of said hinge when the door is open.

In the construction of the device as shown two hinge members 10, 11 are employed. The hinge members 10, 11 are made of steel, preferably by casting, and are so constructed as to form hinges of right and left construction, as shown in Fig. 1.

I will now describe the hinge shown in Fig. 2, which is of left construction. The hinge memberlO is composed of a plate 12, adapted to be attached to a door by means of screws through holes 13 in said plate. The plate is turned outward at the two margins thereof adjacent to the point of pivoting to the other hinge member 11,

and is formed with integral ribs 1 1, 15.

thereon for strengthening purposes. A neck 16 extends outward from said plate, and said neck is oflset at 17 in the direction of the other hinge member 11. The hinge member 11 is composed of a plate 18 similar to the plate 12, adapted to be attached to the wall adjacent to the door, by means of hinge member 18 is turned outward at the two margins thereof adjacent to the point of pivoting to the hinge member 10, and is formed with integral ribs 20, 21. A neck 22 extends outward from said plate, and said neck is oifset at 23 in the direction of the hinge member 10. The hinge members are pivotally connected to each other by means of a rivet 24: extending through aper: tures in the necks 16, 22 thereof.

It will be observed that when my hinge is mounted on a wall and door as described, the pivotal point of the two members thereof will be at some distance from the plane of the wall and door, depending upon the length of the necks 16 and 22. Consequently, when the door is opened it will stand at some distance from the plane of the wall, and this distance will be double the length of the necks 16, 22. Thus a door which is provided with the hinges here described may be built in the very corner of a gable, and the gable end of the roof will interfere in no wise with the opening of the door to its-fullest extent, as shown by dotted lines in Fig. 1.

I claim as my invention In a hinge for gable doors, hinge members composed of triangular plates, said plates adapted to be attached to a wall and door respectively and wholly out of horizontal alinement with each other, outwardly extending marginal flanges on said plates, integral ribs on the outer margins of said flanges, outwardly extending necks on said plates braced by said flanges and ribs, said necks being oflset toward each other whereby said plates are spaced from each other and from the hinged edge of the door, outer ends of said necks overlapping and formed with registering apertures, and a pintle in said registering apertures whereby the pivotal point between said members is spaced from the plane of the wall.

Signed by me at Des Moines, Iowa, this fourteenth day of October, 1909.

ERNEST A. SCI-IAAL.

Witnesses:

EARL M. SINCLAIR, SILAS 0. SWEET. 

